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Waverley - a general history

Official No. 112442: Code Letters SMHK.

Owners: Pyman S.S. Co. Ltd. (George Pyman & Co mgrs) West Hartlepool.

Masters: 1905 William H Farrell; 1908-11 H Wheatley; 1916 G Wilton.

October 1893 Peter Jamieson of Sunderland aged 27, 2nd officer, died at New Orleans.

Bound from Cardiff for Port Said with a cargo of coal, iron & wagons Waverley was torpedoed by German submarine (U-35 Lothar von Arnauld de la Periere) & sank 33 miles off the coast of Algeria on 20 December 1917.  22 lives were lost.

Lives lost December 1917;

Coleman, Andrew, fireman/trimmer, 32, b. Cork

Devany, William, cabin boy, 17, b. Glasgow

Gilmore, Daniel Patrick, 2nd engineer, 43, b. Belfast

Green, Ernest, mess room steward, 16, Great Yarmouth

Hopkins, Theophilus, fireman/trimmer, 36, b. Newport

Kelly, Francis, leading seaman (Royal Naval Reserve)

Kinwigi, M, fireman/trimmer, 20, b. Finland

Lee, Alfred Francis, chief steward, 29, b. Liverpool

Mallia, Louis, boatswain, 42, b. Malta, resided Constantinople

Nash, William, fireman/trimmer, 29, b. Newport

O’Donnell, Peter, carpenter, 65, b. Cloghernamore, Co. Donegal

Petas, P, fireman/trimmer, 23, b. Greece

Racine, Joseph Charles Edward, ship’s cook, 25, b. St Jean, Canada

Raisanen, OW, fireman/trimmer, 34, b. Finland

Richmond, George Allan, galley boy, 15, b. Wishart

Said, Guiseppe, able seaman, 45, Tarxien, Malta

Slater, Cyril David, apprentice, 19, b. Newark           

Smith, William, donkeyman, 31, b. Birmingham

Todd, George Herbert, 1st engineer, 34, West Hartlepool

Traynor, C, fireman/trimmer, 29, b. Belfast

Webster, Laurence Sidney, wireless operator, 17, b. Tottenham

White, Alfred Clark, 4th engineer, 24, Mount Florida, Glasgow

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